Who is going to protect our kids from bus drivers?

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I would like to submit a letter to your paper concerning the Salado ISD. An incident happened at the Elementary School that I think needs to be brougth to the attention of the parents who have children in this school district and also ones that ride the bus. My 5 yr old grand daughter who rides the bus home from school everyday was on the bus on the school grounds. The bus was off and in a stand still position. Kids were getting on the bus. MY grand daughters cousin heard a man yelling and screaming at the top of his lungs and turned around and saw the bus driver yelling at my 5 yr old grand daughter. Who is a recipitent of a liver transplant and is on medication and is very fragile. I am not using this as excuse but I want people to get the jest of this situation. Now here is a small 5 yr old child, not in the best of health being yelled and screamed at by a grown man 10 times her size. My grandchild was crying and totally traumatized. She was being screamed at because she had her hand out the window of the bus. Now mind u the bus driver was not on the bus, the bus was not moving. By the time she got home she was horrified, crying hysterically. My son in law took her to the school the next day to confront the bus driver to find out why he had not handled the situation in a different manner. He could have removed her from the bus, they could have called her parents, anything besides yelling and screaming at a small 5 yr old child. The bus driver apologized to my son in law and the matter was cleared up, until the bus superintendent and I do believe the principle came out and made the matter worse by getting on to my son in law. They accused him of threatening them. Did he say I am going to kill u, did he say I am going to blow the school up, NO HE DID NOT. He went there as a concerned parent trying to find answers as to why a grown man would traumatize a 5 yr old child by yelling and screaming at her at the top of his lungs. But he was escorted off the school grounds by a cop!! Now to me this seems way blown out of control. When a parent has to sit there and let the people who we intrust our children and grandchilren with do what ever they please with our children. Sending a message that we have no rights to protect our children. When a grown up acts so immaturely. What gives these people the right to treat our children like this. Had the bus been moving, had the bus driver even been on the bus, ok. But call her parents, take her off the bus. These are the most incompentent people I have seen in a school district. Now we are getting conflicting information from them first saying her hand was out the window, then her whole body was out the window. And now the school was threatened. Sounds to me like a bunch of idiots trying to cover their mistake. I hope this bus driver is investigated and fired. And I hope the parents of this town will have not only Mrs. Nix removed but also the school superintendent because these people have no business working with children if they are going to lie for their employees! To protect their own u know whats!!
A concerned grandmother!

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I give you lots of credit, you respected your children's presence, and you set and example to the disrespectful parties. So, you did well, and you will be bless for that.
I know and have seen that another person would had not tolerated and it would and has gotten ugly. so, good job my friend.
Proverbs 17:14 " Before the quarrel has burst forth, take your leave."

Something kind of similar happened to me a few weeks ago, but it was not in relation to the bus driver. I was late to pick up my 2 daughters from school because I had an issue with my car, by the time I was coming on my way home it was still 2:05p.m., my daugters get out of school by 2:20p.m., I couldn't make a phone call because I was on my way to school and I can't use my cell phone, I was in a rush to pick my kids, when I arrived at the school, they were in the office with the secretary, 20 minutes have passed already, suddenly, she just jump to me with a scream, why I was late to pick up my kids? that she was not their babysitter, I explained to her that I had a problem with my car, but who is this lady to scream to parents like that? she is just a secretary like any other worker as I am.
I didn't say anything that day, but I went the next morning to speak to her regarding what had happened, I told her that I didn't say nothing to her that day because my kids were present, but I told her that she has absolutely no right to scream at me or to any other parent, then suddendly Ithink it was the principal who appeared and she told me that she was there and that the secretary wasn't screaming at me, I told her, yes, she was screaming! I told her, they should have professional people working there instead of somebody just jumping with a scream, she told me that she is professional but I said to her that that doesn't give her the right to scream to parents, some tried to cover others mistakes, come on, accept your mistakes and confront them.

You are the only person that can protect your children. There is no one more qualify than yourself, even when you are not present you can monitor many areas through the eyes of your children and your neighbors children and parents. When you see something out of line with a bus driver, or anyone for that matter you follow it up with a lot of investigating. If what you see or what your child tells you or see feels improper, waste no time to take action. Investigate, log, and ask questions and report it to the right source. This is not only with Bus drivers, this must be with all suspicious characters, Strangers, family members, Friends, ministers, childcare workers, teachers, bus drivers, store clerks, you name them they are all around us, yes, even young ones. so, in ending I tell you be alert and tack full, and teach your children the same.
Remember we are living in the last days, and many things will continue to get worst and out of hand.
Mathew 24:, 25. 2 Timothy 3:1-5.

This man should not be working with child if he has a blow up temper. Even if he's very nice on other days, it blew up because of some stress, when you work with children you (meaning the bus driver) cannot act like this. He could've simply told her in a calm but firm voice "child move your hand away from the window" and that would've sufficed. A bus driver is part of the school staff.
Also, it would be impossible for her whole body to be out the window. I read an article on how all the school buses have been built with child safety in mind.

Yep, welcome to many schools, corruption and ignoring problems is the name of the game sadly! I teach in a ghetto school with mostly African American and a few Polish students (both immigrant and Polish American). My students (who come to school wearing the same clothes for a week, and half my class lives in a homeless shelter right now) do not even have bathroom doors on the stalls, but yet the superindentant of the district lives in a mansion here downtown!

sorry, I misunderstood

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